Contains 6604 photos
Elevated view northwest to Flannery Building, with signage for Larrabee's stationery store, W.M. Monahan Real Estate. Haskell's Tea Store at left, with Calvary Presbyterian Church in distance behind. Temple Emanu-El at right. Same image as wnp24.218a with different cropping.
Downtown / Union Square
[TEH40 T.E. Hecht View from Nucleus Bldg 1867 V-104] Elevated view north from the Nucleus Hotel at southeast corner of Third and Market. Kearny St lower center. The entrance to St. Mark's Place (renamed Morton Street in 1869) is visible just off Kearny Street. The date of this photograph, 1867, was just two years before brothels started colonizing this residential alley. Old St Mary's Church, Grace Church in background. St. Francis of Assisi church in distance right. wnp37.00682 is a cropped version of this image.
South of Market
View east on O'Farrell toward Fischer's Vaudeville Theatre, Alcazar Theatre, Lunsted's Saloon. [O'Farrell St. TEH543 T.E Hecht] Call Building in distance.
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view southeast across Union Square to M. Friedman & Co. Furniture & Carpets, Chronicle building tower, Hearst Examiner Building, Call building (1898), City of Paris Dept. store. Lengfeld Pharmacy. No central flagpole. [Copyright 1900 Detroit Photographic Co.]
Downtown / Union Square
[TEH546 From James Flood Bldg., Market st. 1905 T. E. Hecht] View east on Market st on smokey/foggy day, Mutual Savings bank and Call building. Streetcars, carriages, many pedestrians.
Downtown / Union Square
View East to Telegraph Hill. Washington Square at left, Stulz Bros. grocers, Union and Columbus (then Montgomery Ave.). St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church to left of Washington Square at Stockton and Filbert. Original Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Church above at Grant and Filbert. Lafayette Primary School further up hill at Kearny and Filbert. Stulz Bros. Grocers. [TEH549 Telegraph Hill April 6, 1906. Green and Taylor Sts. T. E. Hecht]
Russian Hill
View north on Powell to Union Square, Nob Hill. Horses, carriages, cable car. Temple Emanu-El in background. [TEH557 Powell St. Feb 6, 1905. T. E. Hecht]
Downtown / Union Square
Elevated view easterly toward Market and 3rd Street. Grand Hotel, Palace Hotel, Hearst Building, Call Building, Call Building Annex. Carriages, cable car, pedestrians in street. Crowd gathered at right, probably watching Kamm Building construction. [TEH563][Market St. March 23, 1905 T. E. Hecht]
Downtown / Union Square
View north. Tehama Market, at 2nd and Tehama, at right. Nob Hill and Old St. Mary's Church in distance. [TEH416 T. E. Hecht View from Rincon Hill. Original photo by Fardon. Second St. Tehema (sic) Market.] Same original image as wnp71.0511.
South of Market
[TEH413 T. E. Hecht South Park. 1856. Fardon.] View west to Twin Peaks, early South Park homes on north side.
South Beach
View north to Kohl Building (completed 1901), Safe Deposit Building. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Building in distance at Sacramento corner, wagons and carriages, approaching streetcar. [TEH582 Montgomery St. July 6, 1905. T. E. Hecht]
Financial District
[TEH1009 T. E. Hecht Cliff House Destroyed by fire Sept. 7, 1907] Crowd wandering around ruins of Cliff House. Firehoses shooting water onto ruins, Seal Rocks in background.
Sutro Heights
[TEH589 T. E. Hecht Kearny St. 1903] Elevated view south on Kearny towards Call Building, Mutual Savings Bank Building, The White House at Post St. corner. Streetcars, pedestrians and wagons in the street. Richelieu Restaurant and Rafaels in background.
Downtown / Union Square
View north of Ferries & Cliff House train on California St. Towers of Little Sisters of the Poor in distance. [TEH #564 Cliff House Train. May 16, 1905 T. E. Hecht] (Also called the Cliff Line train. It was converted to electric streetcar operations in 1905.)
Richmond Inner
[TEH3 T. E. Hecht] Clay St. Hill RR company. #10 car at Clay & Kearny terminus. Passengers possibly include Andrew Hallidie in first row, center. C.P. Shaack store, 706 Kearny, Uncle Harris pawn shop, 702-4 Kearny in background. Portsmouth Square at left. Same image as right frame from Houseworth Stereoview 'No. 273. Clay Street Hill Railroad'
Chinatown